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Actually, I spent most of last night playing with a bag of crystal meth and a 10 millimeter...

[bulio]

Originally posted by haxor41789@26 March 2004 - 01:31
Actually, I spent most of last night playing with a bag of crystal meth and a 10 millimeter...

blunt....

[Brazilian Boy]

Originally posted by NightStalker@21 March 2004 - 16:20
avatar.gif

<?php
$dh = opendir(".");
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh)))
{
if (preg_match('/\.gif$/i', $file) and $file != "avatar.gif")
{
  $filelist[] = $file;
}
}

srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$picnum = rand(0, sizeof($filelist) - 1);

header("Location: " . $filelist[$picnum]);

closedir($dh);
?>

.htaccess

AddType application/x-httpd-php .gif

Now you will need to upload .gif images to the selected directory that you have placed both avatar.gif and .htaccess, once you have done so, you can link to "avatar.gif" and your avatar will refresh whenever someone refreshes their browser.

Example:

Good!! Your create a very good tutorial..

I would create a tutorial of this.. but you create 1st!!

Bye Bye.....

[FRE[SP]3KZ]

Goood. Just one little niggle. I DON'T HAVE PHP!!

[StealthAssassin]

ive been trying to do this for a while now and cant find a free host that has .htaccess support, so can you right exactly what i would need to do if i didnt want to use .htaccess but still have the php file "avatar.jpg"?

Stealth

[vivitron 15]

i have something similar to this with which im playing, but id like for the image to be refreshed every 10 seconds: either updating the pic, or even the page would be fine, but it must be done through the gif file which calls the images.

heres the code which im using (successfully)
avatar.gif:

<?php
$dh = opendir(".");
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh))) 
{
if (preg_match('/.(jpg|gif|png)$/i', $file) and $file != "avatar.gif")
{ 
  $filelist[] = $file;
}
}

srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$picnum = rand(0, sizeof($filelist) - 1);
$pictype = substr($filelist[$picnum], -3);

$fn='http://www.ianrhodgson.co.uk/images/avatar/avatar.php';
header('Cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, no-store');
header('Content-disposition: filename='.$fn);
header('Pragma: no-store');

header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Content-type: image/$pictype");
@readfile($filelist[$picnum]);

closedir($dh);
?>

.htaccess

<FilesMatch avatar.gif>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

[h1]

Originally posted by vivitron 15@14 April 2004 - 12:28

header("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"10\">");

Too bad that's not a valid header.

[vivitron 15]

yeah, i know - just started playing with this, and was just trying the obvious first

didnt wanna spend hours trying to get it to work if it was that easy...clearly it isn't, and that wasnt supposed to be in the posted code

anyhow, ignoring that line (gonna edit now ) - is there a way i can get it to do the refresh thing?

[h1]

Dunno, if all else fails, try Google.

[vivitron 15]

thanks for the tip - not sure about this goggle though - whats that??









i did, but couldnt find it - thought youd be the best source, being the man with this shit